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From: rburns@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mr. Doom and Gloom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac II case design
Message-ID: <20354@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 19 Jan 88 20:22:54 GMT
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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I've had my Mac II for almost a week now.  I've found it to be a
marvelous machine- it runs ALL my old Mac software except a couple copy
protected games.  

However, I do want to register a complaint about the physical design.
When I look inside the case, I notice that it is practically all air.
My 3 1/2 inch sony drive and 40 megabyte drive take up only a small
fraction of the space allocated for them. There seems to be room for 4
half height 3 1/2 inch devices and 2 half height 5 1/4 in devices. This 
would be nice except the only 3 1/2 peripheral devices can be accessed from 
outside the case. It doesn't seem like there is any way to put a 5 1/4 inch 
drive, CD ROM or tape drive inside the existing case(unlike an AT). This means 
added peripherals *must* have their own case and power supply adding to their
cost and the clutter on my desk.  Is there any chance of this changing?